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                    "description": "Ep. and Ion. Πληϊάδες (<i>Aeol.<\/i> Πληΐαδες Sappho 52), αἱ, <b>Pleiads<\/b>, <i>Il.<\/i> 18.486, <i>Od.<\/i> 5.272, Hes. <i>Op.<\/i> 383, 572. later in sg., of the whole constellation, esp. in notes of time, ὑπὸ Πληϊάδα <b>at the setting of the P.<\/b>, Hp. <i>Epid.<\/i> 1.1; πρὸ Πλειάδος ἐπιτολῆς Arist. <i>HA<\/i> 553b31; ἀπὸ Πλειάδος ἀνατολῆς <i>ib.<\/i> 599b10; μετὰ Πλειάδα <i>ib.<\/i> 598b7; ἀπὸ Πλειάδος δύσεως <i>ib.<\/i> 599a28; περὶ Πλειάδος δύσιν <i>ib.<\/i> 542b22; πρὸς δύσιν Πλειάδος χειμερινήν <i>ib.<\/i> 566a21; Σείριος ἐγγὺς τῆς ἑπταπόρου Π. ᾄσσων E. <i>IA<\/i> 8 (anap.), cf. <i>Ion<\/i> 1152; in sg., also a name given to the seven best Alexandrian tragic poets, Heph. 9.4, Choerob. <i>in Heph.<\/i> p. 236 C., Suid. s.v. Ἀλέξανδρος Αἰτωλός, al. (Πλειάδες is perh. derived from πλέω, <b>sail<\/b>, because they rose at the beginning of the <b>sailing-season<\/b> (if so Πληϊάδες is metri gr. for Πλε(Ϝ)ϊάδες). — Poets (Hes. Frr. 177, 178, 179, Pi. <i>N.<\/i> 2.11, A. <i>Fr.<\/i> 312), using the lengthened form Πελειάδες (Alcm. 23.60, gen. sg. Πελειάδος E. <i>Or.<\/i> 1005 (lyr.)), represented them as <b>doves<\/b> flying before the hunter Orion.)"
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